The terminal operating system (TOS) will be installed at North Carolina Ports' (NCP) Wilmington and Morehead City port facilities as well as the inland terminal in Charlotte, NC.
On 19 March, a CMA CGM container carrier will be bunkered in the Port of Rotterdam with second generation biofuel derived from forest residues and waste cooking oil.
On 8 February, the MCC was established to work on the Maritime Connectivity Platform (MCP), an open source digital maritime domain which wants to bring common Internet standards to maritime navigation and transport systems.
N.C. Nielsen has supplied the Danish Esbjerg-headquartered Blue Water Shipping (BWS) with a reachstacker that's said to have the biggest lifting capacity in the world.
The ferry company and the university, both based in Tallinn, have started a two year-long €100k scientific collaboration, the aim of which is to develop technologies for making car deck operations more efficient.
The Swedish company serving ferry traffic in the Stockholm archipelago has put in operation Yxlan, a diesel-electric vessel built by the Estonian Baltic Workboats and equipped with a hybrid drive from Danfoss Editron.
The SeaShuttle project has been awarded €6m by the government of Norway to work on launching onto the market autonomous container ships powered by fuel cells.
Finferries, a state-owned ferry operator, and Rolls-Royce have successfully carried out what is said to be the first fully autonomous ferry crossing in the world.
